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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 301 to 320 of 340 First Page•Previous Page 9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 Next Page•Last Page... that the murder was in proportion to the political aims they will have to grant the two men amnesty. Some men who are alleged to have perpetrated human rights violations in the past did not ask for amnesty. Many of them will now face criminal prosecution, like Ferdi Barnard, convicted murderer, ... ... have follow-up sessions with them before we forgot what they said. There are many, many unanswered questions. In the mean time the Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee goes to Durban and Uitenhage this coming week. Our appointment with you is next Sunday at quarter to seven. Good ... On the first day of the Mdansane hearings this past week the Human Rights Violations Committee paid a tribute visit to the Egerton Railway Station, scene of the bloody massacre that took place in 1983 to say a short remembrance prayer for those who untimely lost their lives for supporting a just ... The Amnesty Committee moves to Bloemfontein this coming week and the Human Rights Violations Committee will sit in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. From the Special Report team, goodbye until next Sunday evening at eight. Innocent victims of the massacre, like Mrs Francis Joli, and Lindiswa Ngwenya told the Human Rights Violations Committee how they were mistreated after they had been caught in the crossfire. // I heard gunshots and I fell down, due to the gunshots. I don’t know who did this. I tried to ask for ... ... backbone of the National Party their confession before the people of Paarl and Stellenbosch was a meaningful milestone in the Commission’s human rights violations ... ... the overwhelming majority of the actions carried out in the context of that just war of national liberation do not constitute gross violations of human rights within the meaning of the Act establishing and mandating the Commission. ... there are six more witnesses which we still have to take. Could you please in summary form, as the person is asking you, who is leading you, give us human rights violations which were done to you by the ANC on those camps, and give us your requests to the Commission. // I said, as a mutineer we ... ... // When people look at the work of the Commission they should remember that within a two year period we’ve changed the discourse forever about human rights violations and nobody will deny that they took place. Initially when victims told their stories people were disbelieving. Now that we ... interview I did manage to talk to Brian Mitchell and during a conversation that lasted almost an hour I felt that I had glimpsed a sincerely changed human being behind the face of this mass killer, a man who eight years ago had little or no regard for life and for black lives in particular. A ... ... by us. During the time we committed these acts we believed it was right. If I look back today I can see it was a waste of time, money and valuable human lives. It served no purpose. Absolutely nothing. We should rather have stayed at home. Things would have gone better. It served no purpose. It ... If we should judge the apartheid state on how they treated their prisoners then we should certainly also judge the liberation movement on how they treated theirs. The name Quatro is a dark stain on the human rights record of the ANC in the late seventies and early eighties. ... fire on commuters on their way to work, the reason being they had opted for trains and not use the government owned buses at the time. At the last human rights violations hearing in Mdansane, Eastern Cape the Commission heard how people had been shot at in the dark after showing solidarity with ... ... races and enforce white rule. The dompas was born. It ruled the lives of millions of black adults until 1986. It was probably the greatest single human rights violation of our ... ... our diverse heritage, when they are inviting to the public and interact with the changes all round them then they will strengthen our attachment to human rights, mutual respect and democracy and help prevent these ever again being violated. ... ... these strategies of fermenting so-called black on black violence. The Truth Commission resumes its hearings this coming week with a sitting of the Human Rights Violations Committee in Klerksdorp and Duncan Village in East London. And our appointment with you is next Sunday evening at quarter to ... The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee will hold hearings at the University of Western Cape in Belville this week as well as in Sebokeng in the Vaal Triangle. In our report next Sunday we will have special features on women and torture and the Boipatong massacre of June 1992. ... ... across the borders and he was the architect of that vicious ideology of the 1980s, the total onslaught. It is a hard fact that the vast majority of human rights violations reported to the Truth Commission and the vast majority of crimes for which policemen and soldiers are asking amnesty, ... to separate races and enforce white rule. The dompas was born. It ruled the lives of millions of black adults until 1986. It was the greatest single human rights violation in our past. ... ... The people of the homeland mobilized for their freedom but Mangope’s security forces did not let go easily. At the Truth Commission’s human rights violations hearing in Northwest Province this past week Solly Bokaba, a student leader at the time, told about the savage attack on him ... |
